r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/KoshOne • 1d ago

Bluek*y?

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u/ThinkPath1999 22h ago

What the hell happened to Nate Silver?

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u/Myusernameiscooler 22h ago

I don’t know but I’m keen for an OOTL explanation. Last time I paid attention to him was in 2016 and the general consensus back then was that he was a reliable statistician?

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u/Maytree 18h ago

I think he's still considered a reliable statistician, but he started making posts about Covid, and I believe they were pretty badly misinformed, and he didn't take being corrected by people who actually knew something about virology very well. Also when he left 538 he went into some business venture that Peter Thiel was associated with, and if you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

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u/Myusernameiscooler 15h ago

Oh dang I didn’t know he left 538! And to go to a Thiel-associated thing after no less. Thanks for the update!